Jack wants to be a writer but working on his first novel has landed him in deep debt. To get money he takes a job as a dealer at a casino, a job and a world that soon draws his attention away from his writing.
A small Belgian community is turned upside down when a boy is killed in a hit and run accident. A handful of people are connected to the incident in different ways and the longer the search for the murderer goes on, the more secrets are revealed.
Hagar is a witty old lady who, when her son tries to put her in nursing care, escapes on a reconciling journey to deal with her tumultuous past. She recalls defining moments as well as hidden passions in her life and, with some help from a stranger, Hagar comes to terms with a dark secret concerning her youngest son's death.
Terek is in high school, enjoying making super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. Then the Lebanese civil war breaks out dividing Beirut into East and West. At first the war is an adventure; the school is closed and the violence fascinating but as they come of age adventure turns to tragedy. Winner of the International Film Critics award at Toronto Film Festival and the François Chalais Award at Cannes Film Festival 1998.
Jack wants to be a writer but working on his first novel has landed him in deep debt. To get money he takes a job as a dealer at a casino, a job and a world that soon draws his attention away from his writing.
A small Belgian community is turned upside down when a boy is killed in a hit and run accident. A handful of people are connected to the incident in different ways and the longer the search for the murderer goes on, the more secrets are revealed.
François is a lonely middle-class nobody who, after winning the French lottery, offers a beautiful prostitute, ?100,000 a month to be his companion. Daniela accepts the offer and satisfies him in every way possible, but soon the fact that she is only with him because of the money, starts to consume François mind.
Reese, a young broke actress, is offered a small fortune to publish love letters written by her diseased mother to her father. They are both well known authors. Reese goes to her father's house to pick up the letters and finds that one of his female students and a musician has moved in with him.
The Katakuri family opens a guesthouse in the mountains and when their first guest kills himself they decide to bury him in the backyard. Their second guest dies while having sex with his under aged girlfriend and soon the backyard grave starts to fill up.
